Spotting now-familiar actors in tiny bit-parts/early appearances

[The Groke]

Fresh spottings pop-pickers:

Watching Scorcese's underrated and darkly funny Bringing Out the Dead and discovered no less than two Wire stars in blink-and-you-will-miss-em roles.

Good ole Omar was present and correct as Shot and Dying Dealer and then Kima turns up as Dealer's Floozy.

10 points for me.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Leonardo De Crapio stars as Leonardo Di Crapio (even more of a fetus) in Critters 2

Jennifer Aniston in Leprechaun

Also Midsomer Murders has pretty much every british actor ever in at one point or another, including Orlando Bloom if we want to stretch the definition of actor a bit

 

[Lock&Light]

Patrick Stewart in Dune and Excalibur ........

Also in "I Claudius".

 

[Gingerman]

Itv4 were showing old Minder eps from the early '80s a while back,lots of familiar faces in early appearences

 

[Gingerman]

Also in "I Claudius".

And Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as Karla

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Jennifer Beals in My Bodyguard. She isn't even mentioned in the credits.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Keith Chegwin as Fleance in Polanski's Macbeth. Apologies if he's been mentioned, I did do a search but vBulletin's search is piss-poor.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Not a bit part but I noticed that the nobody who played teen wolf too is none other than Jason Bateman.

 

[Idris2002]

Ewan MacGregor had a role as a defendant in Kavanagh QC, the series John Thaw did after he left Morse.

 

[DexterTCN]

Seth Rogen is in Donnie Darko. Lots.

 

[stavros]

Judy Reyes, who plays Carla in Scrubs, is Paulie Walnuts' goomah in the second series of The Sopranos.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Before that she was in Law & Order as a street kid forced into

Spoiler: spoilers ahead

...schtupping her Catholic detox centre director William H Macy. She also convinced her meth head best friend Kelli Williams (Lindsay from The Practice) that a nun had felt her up in the showers.

Macy had previously played an Asst States Attorney in the L&O pilot.

 

[aspirationjones]

Edit: oh, David Duchovny as a transvestite FBI agent pre X-Files (2nd series Twin Peaks).

and David Tennant as a transsexual/transvestite barmaid in Rab C Nesbit

 

[stavros]

It's not an actor, but I watched an old Louis Theroux the other night on Dave where he follows the jobbing actors of New York. He auditioned for a part in a cruise ship musical in front of three judges, one of whom was Craig "Strictly Come Dancing" Revel-Horwood in his pre-Strictly days. It must've been from around 1999/2000, because some of the location shots had the World Trade Centre in them.

 

[DexterTCN]

.... Apologies if he's been mentioned, I did do a search but vBulletin's search is piss-poor.

Thank god you said that, I thought it was just me.

I can't find anything, ever.

 

[Kaka Tim]

I was watching the ealing classic 'the lavender hill mob' the other week and was quite suprised to see Audrey Hepburn appearing in it as 'random totty in bar'.

 

[PandaCola]

In Hitchcock's Frenzy- Michael Caine is a copper standing guard at the hospital door. He is not credited and i once saw him asked about it on a chat show and he said it wasn't him. If you watch the film, there is a close up on his face and it it clearly Michael Caine.